Best Match-3

I played Puzzle Quest back in the day, and I’ve been playing Gems of War for 6 years. But this? This is absolutely the best match-3 I’ve ever played. Everything about this game is amazing, from the RPG, to the matching game, to the art. I don’t know how good the story is going to be, as I’m not that far yet, but frankly I don’t care; you don’t come to a match-3 game for the story, but even still what’s presented so far is better than most attempts. I will probably look up the precursor title after I’m done with this one (but I hope it will take a while to finish). I sincerely hope that there will be a sequel to this. This is easily the best money I’ve ever spent on a phone game. I wish more developers would sell games instead of resorting to ads and micro-transactions, and it’s exciting that this game doesn’t have any of those issues. Pure offline goodness, so you can easily play on a plane. Kudos to the developers; I’m grateful for this gem!

iCloud sync

One of the things i liked in first game is that possibility to after deleting it from the device for whatever reason, but after deciding to reinstall it, you can pickup where you stopped, because it’s being iCloud synced. No progress loss. This one, even though the “iCloud sync” option is visibly checked and i can see it uses space on iCloud account just as fist version - just can’t. I tried few times. Somehow seems now it’s only works for switching devices while it’s installed on at least one i guess? 😒 Edited; fixed and improved generally. Great 👍🏻

Ruined by poor localization job

Let me start off by saying I loved the first Hero Emblems game. Seeing the sequel finally release after so many years in development was an amazing surprise. And honestly, aside from the random encounter rate being somewhat obnoxious, the gameplay is perfectly serviceable. ...but it's honestly difficult to get through the cutscenes when the translation is marred by incorrect grammar, weird word choice, and bad writing in general. I'd be perfectly content unlocking traits, getting better gear, and running around the map finding secret chests if not for the godawful story that fails to live up to its (cliched) potential. One of the characters in particular grates on my nerves but that's a matter of personal preference. With the new skip button added, you can enjoy the match-3 strategy and ignore the plot.

✨ The greatest Match-3 game ever ✨

No that's not an exaggeration. This truly is the best of any match-3 game you'll ever find. Beautifully animated, gorgeous backgrounds, JP voiced, fun / strategic gameplay mechanics, great music, fun story. It has it all. Hero Emblems 1 was already the best Match-3 game ever and this just improves on it. This game was many years in the making and it doesn't disappoint. BUY THIS GAME and support high quality premium game releases. No gacha, no ads, no iap, pure offline experience. The price is a steal. This is one game you definitely don't want to miss! Thank you Heatpot Games!

Great

It’s better than the original and I loved the original and it improves upon it every way. I haven’t had to grind much and even when a boss seems impossible I happen to pull a win out most of the time because you are able to switch out downed characters and let them recover. It’s a match three so obviously there is luck involved. About ten hours in and I’m having a blast

Balancing

Devs: Google it. You cant have a dungeon that is possible to breeze through but then have the boss one-hit total party kill you. Same problem with the last game. Hard, thousand-foot difficulty wall after all the fun I’ve had up to that point. BALANCE YOUR GAME SO THAT ITS POSSIBLE TO COMPLETE. It’s not skill - its luck in addition to wildly disadvantageous math behind the scenes resulting in literally DOZENS OF HOURS wasted getting cheesed by this random boss. If there are no possible matches, I can’t exactly put out the NINETEEN fires the boss starts on my board with every single hit. Your game is not possible to complete. Let me at the very least have a chance. I paid you money! Make your game playable!

Best one yet

This is, by far, the best title matching game in the App Store. The first one is a good game, but the improvements made on this one take it to a completely new level. The games looks and play great. A lot more options for character customization were added and having a large selection of characters that can switch in and out of battle are very welcome additions. Excellent game. Worth every $.

I Love It

I really enjoyed Emblem Heroes 1 but I always wondered if there was a second game how would they expand and grow tue game. Haven't played the EB 2 for a few days I can say this is one of my favorite match 3 game, right next to Sdorica. New characters, super attacks, better combo system, and a pretty cool storyline. As of now I'm still in the first island but if the quality continues i can't wait to see what else is in store.

Paris-based VC firm Emblem has closed its first fund at 80 million euro (US$85 million) over 18 months, despite a global funding slowdown.

Tech in Asia Mon Sep 22 2025